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Hallo everyone my name is Rezi and its my third month growing VFT. Im from Georgia the country between Asia and Europe. I need your advice to grow healthy and big mouth VFTs

What soil, type of water, and lighting are you using? The plant looks kinda sad to me. VFTs should be placed outside, as they require full sun

Welcome to FlytrapCare forums! That plant could definitely use more light. It may need a re-pot. As chomato already said, we need your growing parameters first.

I agree with Benny and chomato:
1) repot (into suitable soil)
2) more sunlight

I bout it on february and repot it on march and only thees days sun showed up and it start growing new 10 leaves . I live in flat so I cant put it on outside but its on east window and I use distilled water. Thats her firs photo

Wats about soil its peat with coconut husk I coudnt buy clear peat so thats why I use it

Soil should be a 1:1 ratio of perlite (or sand) and sphagnum peat moss. You can also use pure long fibered sphagnum moss. Your current soil will not allow proper aeration for the roots. I don't know fine about coconut husks, so maybe someone else will chime in.

If you have a balcony of something like that, that would be great. Someone on the forums was able to stick the pots to the outside window so the plant gets sun. An East facing window should keep it alive, but it won't be healthy. Put in in a South facing window if you can't put it outside.

Yes yes mu mistake sorry for bad english its on south window but I cant put it outside soil is the problem yes and what can I do there is no way that I can buy sphagnum peat ispeciali now what can I do about it ? And that moss from the top is it okey or I should take it iff?

This is the soil that I use should I add sone sand ?

Rezi wrote:This is the soil that I use should I add sone sand ?

What's the name of the soil? If it has nutrients, your plant will probably die.

As far as I'm aware, only sphagnum peat moss and long fiber sphagnum moss are the main media to use (adding perlite, sand, and whatever else to help with aeration)

No its not dieing its already month and half in it you can see on picture it has plenty of new grows in the middle

Just because it's growing doesn't mean it's healthy, if you can't get it outside under the sun, then you need to get it a decent grow light of some kind. It really looks like it's struggling to stay alive.

Rezi wrote:No its not dieing its already month and half in it you can see on picture it has plenty of new grows in the middle

It's definitely growing, but it looks like it's struggling to do so.